A quick search of the DOJ's online searchable (and heavily redacted) Epstein Library reveals that convicted sex trafficker / financier Jeffrey Epstein seemed to be tracking marijuana legalization globally, and may have invested in a cannabis company in the US Virgin Islands.
Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute in a sweetheart deal that didn't seem to affect his business or other activities.
An MD with a redacted name wrote to Epstein on 9/5/2010, "AND do you know WHO aside from the Israelis owns most of the water capture technology.... Hint...I adore him and he just cut off all his hair and I will see him in concert at the state fair on the 16th... (scroll down) WILLIE NELSON! Maybe marijuana does make you a better you." (Nelson played the Puyallup, WA state fair on 9/16/2010. His hair did look shorter in photos from the fair. Reportedly he did own a water capture company.)
On Sep. 21, 2013, [REDACTED] wrote: "[REDACTED] suggested perhaps medicinal weed for me ;)" Epstein replied: "Yes, my 2nd great idea after Zombie Porn! They say these things come in 3's So we should all cash in on the next one!" Hong Kong based academic and tech bro Gino Yu sent Epstein a link on August 23, 2016 to an article titled, "Researchers find lab rats on marijuana just can't be bothered" with the comment, "Roaches on dmt next?" One of Epstein's attorneys Erika Kellerhals wrote in an email on September 7, 2016, "All these marijuana guys are stuck using credit unions because no banks will take their money. IBE angle..." probably referring to International Banking Entities.
David Mitchell, a longtime investor and financier who connected Epstein to Todd Boehly, co-owner of the LA Dodgers and Lakers in 2011, forwarded Epstein an article on February 1, 2019 titled, "Meet Israel's many medical marijuana millionaires - including former Prime Minister Ehud Barak." On March 1, 2019 the article Mitchell forwarded was, "Martha Stewart Will Advise Cannabis Grower on Products for Humans and Pets." And on March 7 that year, he forwarded a Statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on signing of the Agriculture Improvement Act and the agency's regulation of products containing cannabis and cannabis-derived compounds. Analyses of the cannabis market from Harvest and Akrell Ventures are part of the files.
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| US Virgin Islands Governor Albert Bryan, Jr. signs medical marijuana law on 1/19/2019. |
American businesswoman and former US Virgin Islands first lady Cecile de Jongh, who was on Epstein's payroll, responded to a Jan. 19, 2019 email from Epstein asking, "any feed back from albert?" [USVI's new Governor Albert Bryan, Jr.]. De Jongh responded, "I see that he got back to STX [St. Croix] this afternoon to sign the medical marijuana bill." Mitchell wrote to Epstein about the new law on the following day, asking, "what name should I put the shares into?"
Epstein also got involved in helping get jobs, clients, or academic placements for his friends and their children. Marijuana use didn't seem to matter to them.
Attorney Jack Goldberger wrote to Epstein on June 8, 2009, "I told them about his misdemeanor marijuana conviction. 'if we kicked everyone out who had marijuana convictions we'd have no one working here' Its ok but don't highlight it." Epstein replied, "forward to joe." The subject was "axel," perhaps referring to Richard Axel, a Columbia University Professor, Nobel laureate, and co-director of the Zuckerman Institute. The Guardian reported that, in 2010, Axel attended a birthday party in Paris for Epstein, and that Axel had earlier said of Epstein, "He has the ability to make connections that other minds can’t make... He is extremely smart and probing." Mortimer Zuckerman, a prominent Columbia donor, invited Epstein to join then-University President Lee Bollinger, Law ’71, at two dinners in 2013 to celebrate the $200 million University neuroscience institute that Zuckerman endowed in 2012.
Victims of the Epstein / Maxwell sex trafficking ring were asked in depositions about their marijuana or drug use, and their admissions were used to smear them in court.
One victim whose name is redacted is said to have boasted about her marijuana use her MySpace webpage, where admissions of purchasing and using marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia were found. She reportedly stated she "can't wail to buy some weed!!! ... 1 can't wait!!! . . . (hold on: let me say that again) I can't wait to buy some weed!!!.. . I also want to get a vaporizer so I can smoke in my room because apparently there 'narcs' everywhere." She was also said to have posted a photograph of a marijuana cigarette and labeled it "what heaven looks like to me." This information and supporting documentation was provided by the defense to the Palm Beach Police Dept.
Another victim who was 16 when she met Epstein "currently uses marijuana every day for anxiety," according to the files. (No wonder.) In a heavily redacted deposition, a girl who was 14 or 15 when she met Epstein said she used only marijuana before she met him, but began using cocaine and Ecstasy after meeting him. She recounts a woman performing oral sex on her while Epstein had sex with the woman from behind. In an FBI interview where a victim was also asked about smoking pot, she said that Epstein had a "weird shaped penis" with a "peehole on the side of his dick."
A big reason for Epstein's meteoric rise in the financial world was his relationship with James Cayne, who became a director at Bear Sterns in 1985. Epstein names Cayne as an executor in a will found in the DOJ files.
Cayne is mentioned in the 1/4/2026 New York Times Magazine article "Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich," which says, "Rumors, perhaps fueled by envy, began to spread that Epstein was helping Cayne to pursue women and score drugs, according to several of their colleagues." His relationship with Cayne "really catapulted" Epstein, and the two were described as "sleazeballs."
In 2008, Cayne cashed in his share of Bear Stearns for $61 million, sending their stock down 5%, and stepped down as chief executive before the firm went bust. The Wall Street Journal blog said that during 10 critical days of the bank's crisis in July 2007, Cayne was playing in a bridge tournament in Nashville, Tenn., without a cell phone or an email device. The WSJ also reported that Cayne sometimes smoked marijuana after bridge tournaments, citing interviews with attendees at the tournaments. He denied one alleged incident in 2004, but when asked whether he smoked pot during bridge tournaments on other occasions, he said he would respond only "to a specific allegation."
In one of his last acts as CEO of Bear Stearns, Cayne made a payment of around $2 million to a woman who was poised to file sexual harassment charges against its chairman, Alan "Ace" Greenberg, according to The Daily Beast.
It's time to lessen laws, taxes and regulations on legitimate cannabis businesses worldwide to get the holy herb out of the hands of sleezeballs like Epstein, who traffic in human beings.
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